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Place to make a splash
Answer for the clue "Place to make a splash ", 6 letters:
puddle
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, on a surface. It can form either by pooling in a depression on the surface, or by surface tension upon a flat surface. A puddle is generally shallow enough to walk through, and too small to support ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puddle \Pud"dle\, n. [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.] A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. --Spenser. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB splash ▪ Then he switched on the torch and splashed through the puddle in the concrete to the shed. ▪ Without exchanging a word we lengthened our strides, splashing through puddles , and made for the door. ▪ Rain joined ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. wade or dabble in a puddle; "The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard" subject to puddling or form by puddling; "puddle iron" dip into mud before planting; "puddle young plants" work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud mess around, as in a liquid ...
Usage examples of puddle.
El sprang back, gagging, but the bones and the horrible puddle that had been Nadrathen were already afire, blazing from within.
Calling this a castle is like calling a puddle on a privy floor a lake, Alayne thought, when the bucket was opened so they might emerge within the waycastle.
It spun and bucked, alighting on stiffened legs, and Hilliard took flight, landing flat in a muddy puddle a full yard away.
Russians, like everybody else, would lay down their coats in icy puddles so Alsa could keep her feet dry.
Christians and dead brutes, and purified by the odoriferous introduction of gas water and puddle water, joined to a pleasant and healthy amalgamation of all the impurities of the common sewers.
Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ancles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.
At bottom, an axolotl squirmed from a symbolic puddle half into the air, and fell back.
This morning, Bevel had awakened her with a contrite tongue-lashing, driving her to a glittering peak before leveB had plumbed the depths of her throat, leaving a warm, thick puddle of his copious satisfaction in her belly.
I was blocked for a time at one of the temporary buvettes set up before a shop, a simple pair of planks laid across two barrels where a man sloshed wine from a big bottle back and forth over rows of stout glasses until they were more or less full on the puddled planks.
Cart wheels and oxen crunched through puddles snap frozen, then plowed by their passage to shards like white cullet, salted in heaps at a glassworks.
Her cuz Whitey Hawthorn lay with his head half-severed from his body, his jugular ripped open, blood puddled under his neck.
He put his head out the door, saw rain puddles in the street beyond the open main doors and the silhouettes of Van Deef and Astoria engaged in conversation.
Behind, the transporter was a large puddle of fire surrounded by smaller blazes, with the flail tank standing in the middle, sending dribblets of flame up through the vision slits in the armor.
But here she is nothing more than a drippy puddle on dry land, and to be a solid is to be a fake.
His companions still cowered in his shadow, while Rowley lay motionless, a vermilion puddle enlarging about his head.